Stinson L-5
N6438C is a Stinson L-5, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1942. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Eastern Stearman INC Trustee, a corporation in Leesburg, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 24, 2004 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 19, 1989.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Stinson
- Model
- L-5 · all L-5s and related versions
- Serial number
- 1428
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-435A/0-435C · 190 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1942
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A873D3 (octal 52071723)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 24, 2004
- Expires
- July 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · April 19, 1989
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00362306
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Eastern Stearman INC Trustee
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 41665 Browns Farm Ln
Leesburg, VA 20176-6025
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N6438C, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.
Valid registration to Eastern Stearman INC Trustee, a corporation, certificate issued February 24, 2004, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 19, 1989, 47 years after the 1942 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1428 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N6438C according to the deregistered file. [2]
No bills of sale, loans or releases have reached the registry in recent weeks. The index covers only recent filings; older liens are in the records file. [3]
1 NTSB record under N6438C: Accident on October 3, 1992 at Houston, TX: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal). Details below. [4]
These live in the FAA aircraft records file (every document ever filed against the aircraft) and, for larger aircraft, the International Registry. Part of the full report.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Stinson L-5 · operated under 091
THE PILOT OF THE OTHER AIRCRAFT'S INADVERTENT GROUND LOOP. FACTORS WERE THE LEFT QUARTERING TAILWIND AND THIS PILOT'S INABILITY TO SEE THE OTHER AIRPLANE DURING THE LANDING ROLL.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data